Impression management behaviours: The why and how?
The ability to make decisions is an important organisational capability (Chinyamurindi, 2016a; Fisher, Schoenfeldt, & Shaw, 2006) that can provide direction for the organisation (Louw, 2012). This can form a basis for a competitive advantage (Louw, 2013). Furthermore, paying attention to the decision-making capability has ramifications for workplace output (Tsai & Huang, 2014). The requirement is to provide processes within organisations that support this (Grobler, Warnich, Carrell, Elbert, & Hatfield, 2011). An important decision that needs to be made within organisations is concerned with the recruitment and selection of employees (Chinyamurindi & Louw, 2010; Chiwara, Chinyamurindi & Mjoli, 2017; Louw, 2012).
Recruitment decisions concern prioritising that a workforce will be able to meet the current and future needs of the organisation (Aamodt, 2013). By such a prioritisation, organisations are able to place the right people in the right positions, thus enhancing organisational development (Grobler et al., 2011). However, when making such decisions, impression management as a behaviour can occur on both the interviewer's and the interviewee's sides (Abbott, Goosen, & Coetzee, 2013; Ployhart, Schneider, & Schmitt, 2006). Impression management has the potential to affect not only the quality of decisions but also outcomes from human resources management (HRM) processes such as recruitment and selection.
Impression management has been defined to be an effort, whether conscious or unconscious, to control the image that is perceived by others of the self (Mtshelwane, Nel & Brink, 2016). Impression management concerns how individuals portray themselves 'to be perceived favourably by others' (Hooghiemstra, 2000, p. 60). The concept of impression management follows in its early conceptualisation a dramaturgical metaphor as a performance of the self in relation to an audience (Goffman, 1959).
The literature seems to position impression management as a concept studied from various disciplines including marketing (Fisk & Grove, 1996), accounting (Godfrey, Mather, & Ramsay 2003), social psychology (Allport, 1954), economics (Demers & Vega, 2010) and tourism services (Yan & Ho, 2017). Impression management can also be evident within an HRM context, especially concerning recruitment decisions, for three reasons. Firstly, the recruitment interview relies on prospective candidates sharing their stories and experiences (Galletta & Cross, 2013). This process by nature may potentially result in the prospective candidates exaggerating their stories and experiences to sway a decision in their favour. Secondly, recruitment interviews seek to elicit those stories and experiences that are retrospective (O'Neil & Horne, 2012). Such a focus, as inevitable as it may be, can be a strength and a weakness. Chinyamurindi (2016b) lauds interviews as offering a platform on which the past, present and future can be understood. However, the concern is that there are few or no processes to validate interviewees' accounts. This potentially gives rise to impression management as a concept that has been researched and debated internationally (Howle, Jackson, Conroy, & Dimmock, 2015; Kacmar & Carlson, 1999; Patel, Gali, Patel, & Parmer, 2011; Schlenker, 1980; Sung, Lin, Connor, & Chan, 2017) and recently within a South African Industrial Organisational Psychology (IOP) context (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). This study seeks to expand understanding into impression management within an IOP discipline by specifically focusing on the recruitment interview setting.
Central to impression management, as argued by Ward and Ravlin (2016, p. 3), is 'status enhancement', be it in a context of real or imagined audiences (Abbott et al., 2013). Impression management is viewed as a form of self-representation in view of the construction of social reality (Leary & Kowalski, 1990). This can often result in the creation of a desirable image of the self, whether truthful or deceitful, to gain favour from an audience (Goffman, 1959; Kolb, 2017). Impression management thus emerges as a possible performative behaviour (Goffman, 1959) with either positive or negative outcomes (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). Within the context of work, impression management is really done to secure a positive outcome for the individual (Dimba & Rugimbana, 2013).
This study aims to explore why and how impression management manifests within the recruitment interview setting, using a sample of academics at a South African higher education institution. This aim is actuated and influenced by three main observations from the extant literature. Firstly, there is a growing body of international literature calling for focus on understanding impression management within organisational studies (Howle et al., 2014; Kacmar & Carlson, 1999; Patel et al., 2011; Schlenker, 1980; Sung et al., 2017). Secondly, calls exist with the South African IOP context to be expansive in understanding the concept of impression management (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). Finally, although a number of studies have been conducted with a specific focus on recruitment (Chinyamurindi & Louw, 2010; Kerr-Phillips & Thomas, 2009; Louw, 2013), the link between impression management and the recruitment process remains an area that deserves further exploration in South Africa (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). All these are apparent gaps that this research seeks to fill. The research question that guided the study was the following: Why and how does impression management manifest within the recruitment interview setting amongst a sample of academics at an institution of higher learning in South Africa?
To understand the concept of impression management, the study utilised the interpersonal deception theory (IDT) (Buller & Burgoon, 1994) and the attribution theory (AT). The IDT proposes that individuals tend to be deceptive in their interaction with others to be liked or favoured (Buller & Burgoon, 1994; Seiter & Gass, 2004). It is from this desire to be liked that impression management exists. The AT posits that individuals make attributions a basis of interaction and that may often result in bias (Spitzberg & Manusov, 2014). Interviews by nature can provide an opportunity through which this bias can happen (Sung et al., 2017), as they form a basis through which interviewees can express themselves to interview panels (Caruth, Caruth & Pane, 2009). Thus, the AT seeks to provide a plausible explanation of events from the lens of the individual (Merkl-Davies, Brennan & Mcleay, 2011).
The empirical literature identifies a number of impression management behaviours. These behaviours can be deliberate with the aim to sway towards a particular desired point (Mtshwelane et al., 2016). This usually can mean an individual holds power over his or her audience through his or her self-representation (Diekmann, Blickle, Hafner, & Peters, 2015; Jones & Pittman, 1982). These behaviours can consist of (1) self-promotion, (2) ingratiation, (3) intimidation, (4) supplication and (5) exemplification (Jones & Pittman, 1982). Other researchers (Zhao & Liden, 2011) have found self-promotion to be prevalent when recruiting students with success. Conversely, not all impression management behaviours result in positive outcomes (Johnson, Griffith, & Buckley, 2016). This often happens when some form of rapport is established between the interviewer and the interviewee to question some of these self-representations (Leung, Parker, & Courtis, 2015).
Impression management is also noted as a behaviour that even organisations can be engaged in to sway individuals to see the good of their brand (Benson, Brau, Cicon & Ferris, 2015). It can also be manifested through company reporting to effect a positive public perception of a company (Aerts & Cormier, 2009). Within an interview setting, all these efforts by individuals and organisations have been classified as a front to portray a false image (Tsai & Huang, 2014). In most cases, this can be seen as deceitfulness (Stiff, 1996) with no assurance of guaranteed performance when the decision to recruit is made (Yu & Cable, 2014).
Some people position impression management not just as a verbal discourse but even through items of clothing as a way to make an impression (Bligh, 1998). As with the verbal tactics of impression management, the aim is to depict a desirable side to impress an interview panel (Wilhelmy, Kleinmann, Konig, Melchers & Truxillo, 2015). In a study amongst call centre agents in India, Raghuram (2013) found impression management to manifest through using foreign accents, using Western names and those scripts that convey physical proximity to customers. Therefore, interviewees identify an impression management technique called foreshadowing where only a limited amount of information can be disclosed so as not to be put at a disadvantage (Busenbark, Lange, & Certo 2017). In essence, impression management especially in service professions, is for the purpose of swaying decisions, be they verbal or non-verbal, for image building or self-presentation (Yan & Ho, 2017).
This section explores the research design and consists of the research approach, strategy and method.
An interpretivist paradigm hinging on the qualitative approach was adopted for this study as used in previous South African studies on impression management (Mtshelwane et al., 2016) and organisational narrative studies (Chinyamurindi, 2012, 2016a). Such a paradigm and approach allowed the researchers to gain an in-depth knowledge of phenomena, including the lived experiences of the participants (Creswell, 2009, 2014).
The study used a purposive convenience sampling approach. According to this approach, participants must have gone through a recruitment interview as a passage of entry into the university. Furthermore, all participants had to be full-time employees with the participating university. From this, a total of 20 participants were recruited, who shared their experiences of impression management. Table 1 presents the characteristics of the participants.
Data were collected through in-depth interviews relying on the storytelling approach used in previous South African organisational narrative research (Chinyamurindi, 2012, Chinyamurindi, 2016a, 2016b; Harry, Dodd, & Chinyamurindi, 2017). An interview guide was prepared and each question posed to the participants was intended to elicit stories and experiences. This was deemed a useful technique, not only to keep the participants engaged, but also to act as a way of arriving at the narratives that form a result of the data analysis process. All interviews were recorded with the participants' permission and transcribed verbatim within 24 h of the interview taking place. Furthermore, notes were taken during the interviews and were used together with the audio recordings and subsequently the transcriptions for the purpose of data analysis.
Initial data analysis consisted of using a means of structural analysis (Labov, 1972). This technique of structural analysis consisted of a process of summarising the transcribed data, based on the experiences shared by the participants (Klapproth, 2004) into segments identified by Labov (1972). All these steps of initial analysis were deemed useful in preparing the data for the subsequent narrative analysis. To achieve the narrative analysis, an approach known as the three levels of meaning-making (McCormack, 2000) was used to help give meaning to the data. This approach has been used in previous research within a South African IOP context working with narrative data (Chinyamurindi, 2012, 2016a, 2016b; Harry et al., 2017). Table 2 summarises the three levels of meaning-making as used in previous research.
TABLE 2: Data analysis procedure.
In any study, it is essential to ensure reliability and validity; in the case of this study, strategies were used in ensuring data quality. Firstly, the research team had to clarify the essence of the research, which comprised the experiences of impression management amongst employees at a rural institution in the Eastern Cape province during the recruitment process. Secondly, the protection of the participants was of paramount importance. Pseudonyms were used from Participants 1–20 in order to conceal their identities and ensure anonymity. The third strategy was the use of a tape recorder to ensure that the capturing of the essence and articulation of the participants' stories was accurate (Chinyamurindi, 2012). Then, the research team prepared the data collected. This consisted of assembling notes from note taking, transcripts and any other material that was used to collect the data. After transcribing from the tape recorder and side notes, the research team sent copies of the transcribed interviews to the participants in order to validate the information captured (Creswell, 2009).
Firstly, ethical clearance was applied for and granted by the participating institution to conduct this study. Secondly, the research team did not seek to harm any participants through the study. Informed consent forms were issued and discussed before the commencement of the interviews. The study was voluntary and the participants were informed that they could withdraw from the study if at any stage they felt uncomfortable. Finally, confidentiality was emphasised to the participants.
From the data collected, two major narratives emerged. Firstly, when exploring why impression management occurs in the recruitment interview, the strategising behaviour was identified. Secondly, when exploring how impression management occurs in the recruitment interview, the switching behaviour was identified. These findings are discussed in more detail next.
There was firm acknowledgement from the different participants as to why they use or have used impression management during job interviews. Different circumstances have driven these participants to acknowledge their surroundings and what they would like to achieve in the end to be motivation for the use of impression management. Ultimately, the motif of strategising explained why impression management was used. The next finding illustrates how impression management manifests.
Table 3 presents a summary of the two narrative findings and some illustrating quotes.
TABLE 3: Data coding process for impression management manifestation during the recruitment process.
The objective of this study was to explore why and how impression management manifests within the recruitment interview setting. The context in which this study was located was within a higher education setting. The findings of the study extend emerging literature within an IOP context where impression management is being studied (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). In essence, impression management in this study, and from the lens of the individual, is being framed as a tool allowing for a decision to work in their favour and advantage (Hooghiemstra, 2000). Thus, impression management can also be considered to be an individual capability in the enactment of a desired outcome. This study heightens focus on how this happens from the interviewee's side (Abbott et al., 2013; Ployhart et al., 2006). The two findings of the study appear to support emerging work around impression management in South Africa (Mtshelwane et al., 2016), namely that the phenomena can be both conscious and unconscious. The two findings of this research (the why and how of impression management) can be considered behaviours that seek not only to enhance status (Ward & Ravlin, 2016), but also to act as a way of self-presentation to understand how reality is understood and experienced (Abbott et al., 2013; Leary & Kowalski, 1990).
This study uniquely locates this finding within a recruitment interview setting of a higher education institution. Based on previous studies, this could show the enduring nature of impression management as a concept across disciplines. Thus, this work extends from previous work in various disciplines outside IOP (Allport, 1954; Demers & Vega, 2010; Fisk & Grove, 1996; Godfrey et al., 2003; Yan & Ho, 2017) and within IOP, especially in South Africa (Mtshelwane et al., 2016). As organisations recruit the best employee in order to gain a competitive edge over other organisations (Louw, 2013), one way of doing so is going through the rigorous process of recruitment and selection (Chinyamurindi & Louw, 2010). These findings provide a clear indication that interviewees would use any tactics to get employment or be seen as desirable.
The two findings of this study also heighten focus, not only on the agentic power of the interviewee, but also, as positioned in the theoretical literature, the dramaturgical metaphor of individual performance of the self in relation to an audience (Goffman, 1959). In essence, the interview set-up by virtue of being a platform to share stories and experiences (Galletta & Cross, 2013), and also its retrospective framing of reality (O'Neil & Horne, 2012), can make impression management an inevitable phenomenon.
Some practical implications based on the research can be suggested. Considering the argued value of activities such as recruitment (Louw, 2012, 2013; Chinyamurindi & Louw, 2010), recruitment panels can use the findings of this research to be better informed on those cues with the intent of impression management that may lead to undeserving candidates being appointed. To this end, the findings of this study provide useful knowledge to assist in improving the quality of decision-making (Tsai & Huang, 2014). Subsequently, this assists management action to ensure that the right people are appointed in the right positions for the purpose of achieving optimal returns. Furthermore, given potential interviewees taking multiple actions through information acquisition of even panel members, there is a need for a total revamp of recruitment systems in organisations. This can potentially assist to eliminate the possibility of predictable questions or even the members of a panel. There is a need in this regard to be constantly redefining the recruitment process through its questions and panel members, given the tactic of impression management. The findings of this study will be sent to an HR department with suggestions for decision-makers and recruiters to be aware of false representations given by interviewees and to research more feasible strategies to improve recruitment interviews.
Some notable limitations exist with this work. Firstly, considering the number of institutions in South Africa, this research was conducted in one university located in the Eastern Cape province. The findings are in no way claiming generalisability to the entire university population in South Africa. Secondly, taking into account that this was a qualitative study, shortcomings around access to a representative sample are noted. Thirdly, another limitation is that the sample of participants comes from predominantly one discipline.
Future research can improve on this research. Firstly, continual use of a narrative and storytelling approach can be used in conjunction with other research techniques such as a visual methodology. This strategy may assist in eliciting richer stories away from the vague descriptions which my lack experiences. This is an effort that can improve the richness of textual data (Labov, 1972). Secondly, future research could focus on understanding the aspects of impression management (the detection of this) from the angle of the interviewer. Thirdly, given the absence of measuring instruments, specific to aspects of impression management, especially within a South African context, future research could attempt to develop such instruments. Qualitative research like this study can potentially set the scene for the development of such instruments.
It is important to understand individual behaviour, especially concerning aspects of the decisions that they make. This may include those behaviours classified as self-representations made to sway a decision in favour of the individual. Ultimately, studies such as these assist in unearthing the often complex and innate aspects of behaviour. The field of IOP can benefit from such efforts.
The authors acknowledge and appreciate all the participants for taking part in the study.
V.D. collected and analysed the data. She was responsible for writing the first two drafts of this paper. W.T.C. supervised V.D. for her Master's studies. W.T.C. also oversaw the data analysis and writing of the article.
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With Christmas just around the corner, there's not much time left to make all of those cards. But cards don't always have to be about stockings and Santa Claus to have that Christmas feel. In this article I will show you how to make three beautiful Christmas cards with no Santas and in less than half an hour.
These cards were created using papers from the Chatterbox Powder Room Paper collection (Powder Burgundy Cardstock, the underside of Powder Scarlet Puffs paper, Powder Lollipop Stripe paper, Powder Bubbles paper, a red and green card from Bazzill Christmas Cards (you could make your own card from red and green Bazzill cardstock), red ink, red glitter pen, silver pen, miscellaneous Christmas sticker and American Traditional Christmas Cheer Embossed stickers.
1. Cut a piece from the top left corner of Powder Burgundy Cardstock measuring 15cm by 20.6cm. Keep in mind that when you fold it in half, you want a large red flower to be centred on the front.
2. Fold the card in half and ink the edges with red ink.
3. Cut a strip of Powder Lollipop Stripe paper approximately 1cm tall and adhere across the front of your card, towards the bottom. Embellish by placing a miscellaneous Christmas sticker on the right side of the stripe.
4. Finally, use a red glitter pen or silver pen to embellish the large red flower in the centre of your card.
1. Cut a piece of Powder Bubbles paper measuring approximately 13.8cm by 5cm. Ink the edges with red ink. Place your green card horizontally and adhere the piece towards the top of the front.
2. Cut a piece of the underside of Powder Scarlet Puffs paper measuring approximately 13.8cm by 5cm. Ink the edges with red ink. Adhere towards the bottom of the card (it will overlap the bubbles paper).
3. Cut a thin strip from the underside of Powder Lollipop Stripe paper approximately 1cm tall and adhere across the join between the two papers.
4. Cut a large red flower from Powder Burgundy Cardstock and adhere to the front of the card. Outline and embellish it with a silver pen. If you wish, you can also use your silver pen to write a holiday message like 'Happy Holidays' or 'Merry Christmas' in the bottom right corner of the card.
1. Cut a piece measuring approximately 9.8cm by 14.5cm from the underside of Powder Burgundy Cardstock. Ink the edges with red ink and adhere to the front of your card.
2. Cut a piece of Powder Bubbles paper measuring approximately 6cm by 9cm. Ink the edges with red ink and adhere at an angle to the front of your card (see card above for placement).
3. Cut a piece from the underside of Powder Lollipop Stripe paper measuring approximately 3cm by 6cm. Ink the edges with red ink and adhere at the opposite angle to the front of your card (see card above for placement).
4. Cut a piece of Powder Burgundy Cardstock measuring approximately 9.8cm by 6.5cm. Cut the top edge at an angle, as shown above. Ink the edges with red ink and adhere to the bottom edge of your card, as shown above.
5. Cut a strip from the underside of Powder Lollipop Stripe paper approximately 1cm and adhere across your card, towards the bottom edge.
6. Finally, place your 'Joy' sticker from American Traditional Christmas Cheer Embossed stickers on your card (see picture above for exact placement) and draw a border around it with your silver pen.
Voila! Three easy Christmas cards that your friends and family will love!


These stand'n'stuff tortillas are so easy to hold and eat without all the mess. They look great and kids will love them.
1. Fry the minced beef for 3 minutes to brown, add the taco seasoning mix and cook for 1 minute. Add the beans and tomatoes, cover and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Meanwhile, heat the tortillas according to the packet instructions, fill with lettuce and the slices of avocado, top with the mince and spoon over the soured cream. Sprinkle with coriander and serve.
Try adding spicy salsa or sliced jalapeños for an extra hot version.
This recipe was first published in April 2015.


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This year has been crazy. I'm noticing that I'm not the only one who feels this way about 2016. When I look back, I get filled with both joy and sadness. Let's have a look!
My first look of 2016! Wearing only monochromes. I remember that I cut my hair off just months before... I tried bleaching it myself without Ola Plex and it completely destroyed it so I had to cut 20 cm off. I still have like 1 cm of yellow blonde left here, as you can see.
Back in Stockholm, I was kind of lost. I was finally back with my friends but everything was so different and I didn't know what I wanted to do. I just remember being really sad all the time and tried to meditate and do a lot of yoga to cleanse my mind.
Tried to become a new person by buying new clothes.
I turned 20!!! and celebrated my birthday with a dinner at Grand Hotel with my giirllsss. They surprised me with these balloons and everyone was looking at us hehe. The night continued at Södra Teatern with my friends and my iPhone got stolen on the dancefloor. I felt him take it from my pocket and I get so frustrated everytime I think about this. I used to work with social media platforms for other companies and had so much work and memories on that phone. It completely destroyed a part of my career and ever since that moment I've been waiting to turn 21 haha.
My hair was extremely boring so I decided to dye it grey! I went to Sandra at Fringe (the same hairdresser who dyes Fridavega's hair grey) and she bleached it with Ola Plex so it was still shiny and in good quality afterwards. I'd really recommend her to anyone who wants pastel hair.
It was fashion week in Stockholm!
SM moved to another studio next to Moderna Muséet were I spent a lot of time. The studio had perfect marble windowsills and I found my dream bag at Stadsmissionen for 40kr that I've been using almost everyday this year. It fits both my camera and my wallet, so I guess that's why.
I matched my outfits with my mood. Not very colorful so to speak. I only dressed in monochromes.
Worked a lot with organic skincare brands and product photography but didn't post so much about it on my blog. Here is one of the photos at least.
And had a collaboration with Beyond Retro.
I cooked a lot of green vegan raw food and posted it on my blog. I need to start doing that again!
I bought my new camera lens! It's a 40mm f/2.8 pancake macro lens from Canon. I LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART.
My photographer/makeup artist friend Ela also moved to a new studio called Little Paris and had a move-in-party!
...Until I found this River Island bubblegum coat at Blocket. I've never gotten so many complements for an outfit as I do when I wear this piece.
I went snowboarding with the boys in my family. We went both to Sälen and Stöten!
I took Mikaela with me to Berlin and showed her the city! We went to Mauerpark.


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CP stands for Computer Personal. Released in 1984, the CP-400 shows an original plastic case, very similar to the Timex-Sinclair 2068! The calculator type keyboard uses a membrane for contacts. There is a cartridge slot on the right part of the case, accessed via a moving trapdoor.
The CP-400 was released as 16 KB or 64 KB models. But heating/voltage problems on first models led to frequent RAM corruption.
The CP-400 model II was later released, correcting those heating/voltage problems and offering a better keyboard (pseudo mechanical) and 64 KB RAM.
When the MSX systems came in 1985/1986 (in Brazil), sales of the CP-400 started to fall down disastrously. Prol�gica (and other companies that had launched the TRS Color in Brazil) did not provide necessary support in software and documentation. Even though the Color Computer was successfull in U.S.A., it was difficult to find material for it in Brazil.
see more Prologica CP-400 Ebay auctions !


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The Significance of Swine: Pigs in societal evolution
By Kathryn Ward
Mark Essig is featured with the subject of his extensive academic inquiry. While writing Lesser Beasts, Essig worked at least one day a week on a pig farm in North Carolina. Image courtesy of Mark Essig.
Mark Essig lights up when he tells the unlikely story of how 19th century hog drives in the Blue Ridge Mountains created a complex infrastructure of taverns, roads, and pig statues across North Carolina. This story fascinated Essig and led to his 2015 book Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig, an account of the changing human relationship with pigs over time. It starts with humans raising hogs along the Nile, and takes readers all the way up to the modern U.S. pork industry.
Essig's book, Lesser Beasts, is an acclaimed history of the pig from ancient times to today. Image courtesy of Mark Essig.
This past October, Essig was a speaker at the "Pig Out" conference at Yale, where he and other porcine academics gathered to discuss all things swine.
Fully titled "Pig Out: Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context," the conference drew academics from far-reaching fields — from religious studies, to agriculture, to sociology, to genetic engineering. These experts gathered in New Haven to discuss how we can better understand human society — both today and in historical context — by focusing on the pig.
Diverse issues are affected by the pig in a social, cultural, and scientific context. Debates over vegetarianism and ethical animal slaughter, for example, would benefit from an interdisciplinary conversation, which is exactly what the Yale Pig Out conference hoped to achieve.
One subject Essig touched upon was environmental issues, and the fact that they cannot escape the porcine narrative, especially as the industrial age has changed the role of pigs. Wooden fences were replaced with concrete boxes that more effectively contain hogs. The very definition of livestock as food was abstracted as big agriculture herded animals into factories not unlike car factories that were springing up around the same time. The rise of big agriculture had ramifications for our relationship with pigs — generally speaking, we think of pigs today more as food and less as sentient creatures. Essig argues that this mirrors our altered interaction with the environment as a whole, which is one way that the pig story sheds light on changes in human society.
"Culture plays a role in decisions about what to eat and the way we use meat," Essig said. "There are a lot of ways to get sustenance. The particular decisions we make about the meats we eat say a lot about how we organize ourselves as society."
The Yale Pig Out conference studied the role of the pig in society today from a historical, agricultural, and scientific perspective. Image courtesy of the Yale agrarian studies program.
No aspect of modern American agriculture, which is increasingly becoming industrialized, is "terribly pretty," Essig added. "Pork is the worst."
Pigs are the smartest creatures that humans eat on a large scale. They are unique livestock in several key ways — less mobile, yet far more self-sufficient than any other livestock, and capable of foraging and surviving on their own in almost any environment, urban or rural. Understandably, humanitarian concerns have been raised as companies capture pigs in tight cages and dose them with antibiotics, effectively eliminating their self-sufficiency. Furthermore, factory farming sometimes releases environmental toxins. Methane from livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Essig describes the role of government regulation of the meat industry as "a lack of regulation." If anything, the U.S. government has been a promoter of the meat industry, and authorities have been known to turn a blind eye to environmental damage in favor of higher profit, he said. In this way, the fate of the pig in the industrial age reflects the key environmental and humanitarian concerns of our time.
The pork industry through the ages is a case study of industrialization and the environment. If these issues go unaddressed, future consequences may be dire. The future of the pig mirrors the future of our societal decision on how to interact with our environment. As Essig put it, "food is about identity," and the human relationship with the pig shows how much that identity has evolved.
Mark Essig relaxes with a pig; industrial pigs today can reach over 300 pounds in less than a year after birth. Image courtesy of Mark Essig.
The October conference looked to history as much as it discussed modern day controve
rsies related to the pig. "The number of pig bones found at historical sites correlates with political changes; there were more pig bones when the political structure was weaker," Essig said. Observations like this further demonstrate how pigs might illuminate secrets of humans' historical past. Pigs were a calculated choice by ancient social systems, as they were animals that could be more easily organized than other livestock, such as cattle, sheep, or goats. Subsistence villages on the margins of empires benefited greatly from the pig. Once again, pigs paint a picture of the political, economic, and environmental climate at any given time.
Other key speakers at the Yale conference included renowned food journalist Colman Andres, animal warfare advocate Bob Comis, and Greger Larson, director of the paleogenomics department at the Oxford School of Archaeology. The event was sponsored by the Yale agrarian studies program.

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Euromillions: two players from the same department win the lottery
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Happy end of the year to these two winners! At the end of December 2021, two Frenchmen won 17 and 79 million euros in Euromillions, the site specifies News Pas-de-Calais. These are the last two jackpots put into play in 2021. A northerner in his forties won €79 million on the internet. A regular lottery and EuroMillions player, he saw his lucky numbers drop and win the jackpot. Definitely, luck happens to the french.
The day after the draw, the young man, when connecting to his FDJ application, first thought he had won 79,000 euros. A very nice sum, but after a few minutes he finds "the presence of its three digits after the decimal point" surprising. Then find out the actual amount. "To be sure of myself, I had to go to the application several times and wait for the phone confirmation from the FDJ winner relations service. We play to win, but when it happens, we don't believe it," he specifies, with our colleagues.
The now billionaire plans to continue working but already plans to work from home. Priority is also given to "taking care of your family and traveling".
He asks his mother to keep the ticket
The second winner won €19 million on December 31, 2021. Originally from Pas-de-Calais, this 30-year-old is an occasional gamer, always playing via flash. It was during the broadcast of the draw on television that he realized that the jackpot had been won in France. He then checks his numbers that correspond in all respects to the draw figures.
To secure the winning ticket, she asked her mother to take her to a safe place. "She hid the ticket in a notebook near her computer and checked very frequently that it was still there," he says. Now what do you plan to do with all that money? "The priority is already good health," admits the lucky winner, while claiming to want to discover paradisiacal islands and go on cruises.
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Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir
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Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
Guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by poet Natasha Trethewey on Episode 145 of The Quarantine Tapes. Natasha's most recent book is her memoir, Memorial Drive. In their conversation, Eddie asks her about the process of writing and releasing that book into this moment of political and social reckoning. Natasha offers a deep look at her process of crafting this book in an emotional and thoughtful episode. She talks about why she found it so important to tell her mother's story in this book and how she took control of that narrative in her writing process. Eddie and Natasha's conversation is warm, familiar, and wide-reaching, ranging from comparing gumbo recipes to parsing the role of silence in writing.
Eddie Glaude: What does it mean to be out there like that? Because, you know, we hold stuff close to the chest. So what does it mean to be reading and allowing people to read your life in this way?
Natasha Tretheway: I mean, you're absolutely right. I know that I am a deeply private person. And I am always confronted by people, even when I go and give poetry readings, who feel that the things that I write about—because I'm a deeply autobiographical poet—that the things that come out of my poems seem so deeply personal to them, and that they wonder how I can make bare so much of that. And I talk about form. I talk about the elegant envelope of form that a poem is. The way that you are shaping the language, which requires a kind of distance and restraint. I make use of silence as much as I make use of revelation, revealing things.
That's also true in a memoir. Even in the memoir, where there was more space to meditate on things and I had to not wear the mask, the mask of form that the poet has, even in writing autobiographical poems. But it is still a shaped work of language and silence and restraint. And the way of telling the story also keeps a core of my private self safe.
Now, when I talk about it—if you ask me about the Confederacy, if you ask me about domestic violence, if you ask me about all that kind of stuff, I can get on a soapbox and just go, and talk about what we need to know and what we need to be doing. When you ask me things about my mother, sometimes that's when I get overcome with emotion. But it's not a private emotion for me anymore. I've been living in a state of bereavement my entire adult life. It is indeed a part of who I am. It is my greatest and deepest wound. And yet, talking about it continues to expose it to light. And so, I remind myself of Rumi: "The wound is the place where the light enters you." That's what I feel like when I'm talking about it.
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Was it your goal to find the worst pictures of us possible? Also, that is a picture from a play I was in 10 years ago (directed by Dan, actually). You couldn't find something more current?! Maybe without the ugly wig?
After about 20 minutes, we worked out the rest and they made us go on the runaround, despite telling all the other teams that the hunt was over. Apparently making us go on the runaround (instead of letting us collapse into victory) was our "punishment" for not taking the deal when we had a chance.
NOTE: Laura did assist with writing the post and contributing memory.
I'm going to have to disagree with your recollection. The PARTNERSHIP check was definitely rejected in an earlier call before it was accepted. There was also definitely an initial call when the offer was proposed to which Laura put them off and hung up before the final call — which your account of is 100% correct.
Setting up your leadership with an Executive Producer and a Director is a great way to define roles. I have a soft spot for S.P.I.E.S.'s Directors of Intelligence (puzzle writing), Counterintelligence (puzzle testing), and Operations, but those were after-the-fact themed labels.
In spite of its problems, I enjoyed 2013, and am looking forward to what you guys come up with for next year!


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No, IPv6 works perfectly with CGPro, and the documentation is correct.
What you have there is a 6to4 address for the private IPv4 192.168.69.246 - thus not useful for CGPro to enable any services on it.


A new report aims to help universities shape data analytics education.
Technologies that collect data for analysis exist in pretty much every aspect of life - from smart thermometers in homes to wireless sensor networks.
Every industry is seeking ways to collect data in order to discover actionable insights, and demands are increasing in the workforce for people who know how to deal with this data. But, how do higher education institutions prepare the next generation of workers to take on that challenge?
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine sought to answer that question in its new report, "Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data: Summary of a Workshop."
"Advances in technology have made it easier to assemble and access large amounts of data," reads the report. "Now, a key challenge is to develop the experts needed to draw reliable inferences from all that information."
Guy Lebanon, director of AI and machine learning at Amazon, said students need to have skills in software engineering, machine learning and product sense to effectively analyze data, according to the report.
With software engineering, Lebanon noted that data scientists can build out tools and tests and then use machine learning for optimization. Using product sense, the data scientists will then be able to establish an evaluation process using data to see if they are meeting business or organization goals.
At Southern Connecticut State University, students got hands-on experience using machine learning and product sense through an internship program. Students in the program used IBM Watson Analytics, a data analysis tool that uses elements of machine learning, to help a local business make better decisions.
While students who want to work in data science need to know the technology, they will also need to harness critical thinking during the data analysis and exploration process.
Duncan Temple Lang, director of the Data Science Initiative at the University of California, Davis, noted in the workshop that prospective data scientists need to be skilled in "knowledge of randomness and uncertainty, statistical methods, programming and technology."
Students in many different disciplines could end up working in data science, but, Peter Fox, an earth and environmental science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, noted in the workshop that these students arenâ??t always taught about the technology of data collection.
Fox championed that data science programs must be interdisciplinary from the start - teaching technical skills such as programming with critical thinking skills. For scientists, Fox noted that data science should be "a skill in the same vein as laboratory skills," according to the report.
In addition to interdisciplinary work, the report noted that it is also important for students to work with peers from a variety of backgrounds.
Using team projects to have students from different programs collaborate on a data problem allows for more creative thinking and more possibility for innovation. Also, if they use real-world data, the report noted that these students will gain valuable skills for the workplace.


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A Parent Reviews the Parent Trigger Movie
It seems as though all the really big publicity for the anti-union, anti-public school film "Won't Back Down" is coming from parents and teachers. Here is a review by a parent.
But that really isn't so, as NBC's Education Nation is making a big deal of it, and will have a private screening at the New York Public Library for the upper crust. And you can bet that all the corporate funded activists who want to privatize public education will try to turn this into the fiction version of "Waiting for Superman." Well, same producer, same goal.
This writer, who was president of her school's PTA, says the movie demonizes the union. She wonders how the actors–who all belong to the Screen Actors Guild–feel about making a movie that attacks another union.
She writes:
I am all for parent power. I am all for getting rid of the crappy, demoralizing teachers who should not be allowed to step foot in a classroom. But, this movie made me sad. I was really hopeful in the beginning of the film because it was about teachers and parents working together – not something you usually see in movies. This wasn't some public school movie where the wide-eyed liberal white teacher swoops in to the minority student school and teaches them violin and magically makes their lives better. We don't need any more of those either. But, this was really a giant anti-union propaganda film that missed the mark. And that's too bad because it had the chance to really say something about how parents and teachers can make change – and how hard it really is to find great leadership, and what can happen if we put kids first. There was NO mention of lack of funding at the school by the way, or lack of professional development for teachers, after school programs, etc. Seems if you just hang lots of butterflies in the hallway and paint the halls you make a great new school. That's an insult to all the parents and teachers who really do work their butts off to make their schools better everyday.
But then, what would you expect from a movie funded by Philip Anschutz, a billionaire who funds anti-public school think tanks and other causes whose goal is to decimate the public sector and privatize everything?
Categories Corporate Reformers, Parent trigger, Parents, Unions
debmeier says:
The talk about the anti-union film reminds me our experience in NYC with another Hollywood film about another school"–Central Park East, starring Meryl Streep.and called "Music of the Heart". It claims not merely to "be based-on" but to be an actual true story! It pits two music teachers against each other at the time of a financial crisis, with the heroine (Roberta) fired because of union rules, leaving the regular music teacher (Barry) in place. (It has a happy ending when private funds save her.) The decision–made by staff, parents and kids–to stick with Barry, not Roberta, was because he was a great, relentlessly dedicated and superb musician. He taught music to every single kid–at least once a week–to sing and play the recorder, produced musicals and operas, ran two non-audition choruses, held an all-school sing every Friday morning (and covered all our staff prep periods). Yes, he had been also with us since the school's third year of existence. Roberta worked part-time, taught maybe 50-60 kids to play the violin…. We gambled on her (her son was in our school), and were delighted. The string program started–and which spread to other schools, was also a real asset. Our choice was a no-brainer. (Actually it wasn't a choice at all.) Yes, seniority and tenure matter, but it required an incredible stretch of the truth to turn this into a fight about seniority! But, the movie makers had their agenda, and couldn't resist inventing an anti-union subplot. By misrepresenting the gifts of one teacher and then bringing the union in to save his job was ugly in so many ways–to Barry, CPE, the Union and The Truth. Another one of those "myths" that creates deliberate damage. The true story was just as incredible, but would have reminded the public of the tough choices underfunded schools must make., and of how one public school worked together to do what was both right and best for all.
Justletmeteach says:
I wish someone would make a movie about a school where parents and teachrs come together and refuse to take their states standardized test. Who could play parents and teachers? Awh and maybe Rhee could make an apperance as the villan.
Duane Swacker says:
Somebody paint a Snidely Whiplash mustache on her!!
As a longtime urban public school parent, having experienced dozens and dozens of teachers and eight principals over 18 years, I am so pleased that fellow public school parent and supporter Rebecca Levey is letting others know that WBD is nothing more than a propaganda film.
FYI, Daniel Barnz, the director and co-writer of WBD, rewrote the original screenplay by Brin Hill. I am so curious about what Hill's story originally was about. The possibility exists that this the case of a young ambitious director (Barnz) being willing to tailor a script to fit the production company's propaganda goal in exchange for getting the opportunity to direct huge movie stars. After all, Walden Media's CEO essentially admits that his company is intentionally producing a series of pro-charter, anti-public school system, anti-teacher union propaganda films.
"'We realized the inherent limitations of the documentary format,' said Michael Bostick, chief executive of Walden. Now, he said, the idea [with WBD] is to reach a larger audience through the power of actors… Working from an earlier script by Brin Hill, [Barnz] introduced the parent-trigger mechanism… "
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/movies/viola-davis-and-maggie-gyllenhaal-in-parent-trigger-film.html
In other words, WBD was needed because "Waiting for Superman" didn't make a big enough impact with its lies.
Incidentally, Daniel Barnz (previously Daniel Bernstein) is going around on the WBD publicity tour announcing that his parents are "teachers," as if to suggest that he has a certain "in" and special sympathy for being involved with this story. But his parents are elite private college professors (Bryn Mawr, The New School) not K-12 public school teachers. In fact, just like so many of the corporate-style education reformers of today, Barnz does not have meaningful public school experience credentials, having attended a private Quaker school in an affluent suburb of Philadelphia (Friends Central, then Yale, then USC).
Why doesn't someone do a reality show featuring the everyday lives of teachers, students, administrators, and parents. Cameras can be pointed down to not show students' faces. Let everyone see the good, bad, frustrating life of school. See the overcrowded classrooms, students using phones daily, teachers going through the motions, teachers giving it all, students trying, not trying. Poor funding. no time to plan. take home work. LUNCH ROOMS. Teachers losing planning time because of covering classes because of no subs. impossible schedules. Yes, let everyone see it.
Urbanlad (@urbanlad) says:
Bill, this isn't a reality show in the making. I'm sure once privacy concerns are ironed out this will be the face of teacher evaluation. The community gets to rate the teacher.
If parents saw the real reality of some schools-there would be riots in the streets. OK maybe an exaggeration;but still.
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Q: Is it possible to set alarm programmatically in Android wear smart watch? I have to create an application for Android Wear which schedules a task in background.For this I have used AlarmManager in wearable app. But after this my application is not listed in Wearable emulator.
Is it possible to schedule tasks using Alarm Manager in wearable itself?

A: Have you seen this documentation:
https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/always-on.html
"For apps that require more frequent updates, such as a fitness, time-keeping, and travel information apps, use an AlarmManager object to wake the processor and update the screen more frequently."

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Q: broken packages in wine install i am following the exact (i hope) commands given here at this site https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu , and im at the step where i select and install one of 3 different packages: stable, dev and staging.
    i run the command for stable, an am presented with this:
i am completely new ( a few days) to linux, but i can read the info.... but no idea exactly on how to go about correcting the broken packages. i actually still dont know how to really install or uninstall anything unless its from the ubuntu software center thing.
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How To Write A Genuinely Scary Monster Story
Apr6 by pekoeblaze
Back in the 1970s-80s, quite a few popular splatterpunk novels in the UK followed a similar formula – take an ordinary animal that some people were afraid of, enlarge it slightly, make it more ferocious and then see what happens.
James Herbert was first with his "Rats" trilogy, followed by Guy N. Smith and his "Crabs" novels (the footnote at the end of "The Origin Of The Crabs" still makes me laugh even ten years after I read it) and then there were Shaun Hutson's two "Slugs" novels.
Giant evil animals were apparently all the rage in the seventies and eighties.
Although they were fun to read, only one of these many novels genuinely scared me and that was "Domain" – the final novel in James Herebert's "Rats" trilogy. There are virtually no giant rats in it at all. They literally appear in only a couple of scenes, if I remember rightly.
Most of "Domain" is actually an extremely bleak tale about the survivors of a Soviet nuclear attack on the UK and most of the story takes place in the claustrophobic depths of the London underground. In fact, the creepiest chapter of the novel (a very memorable chapter about a man and a cat trapped in a fallout shelter) was apparently removed when the novel was published in America.
It's a disturbing novel, but there are very few monsters in it.
Monsters have also, of course, been a part of horror movies for decades. Very few horror movies featuring monsters are scary – most old monster movies (and some new ones) aren't scary due to the laughable special effects or because they rely on a fantastical monster as their main source of horror.
Monsters, in and of themselves, aren't scary. If the main source of horror in your story is a monster, a werewolf, a vampire, a ghost or a horde of zombies – your story won't be scary.
Why? Because monsters don't exist. They rarely tap into anyone's actual fears. Yes, monsters might look dramatic or be easy to write, but you shouldn't rely on fantastical creatures alone to scare your readers.
This isn't to say that you shouldn't include monsters, vampires, zombies etc… in your story. After all, what would the horror genre be without these things? No, these things are a valuable part of the horror genre. But, to be cynical, they're little more than window dressing. Something you can add to your story for dramatic value and/or because it looks cool. At most, monsters can be symbolic. But they aren't scary.
So, if monsters aren't scary, then how do you write a scary story that includes monsters? Simple. You make sure that the main source of horror in your story comes from the situation, the characters, the themes of your story, suspense and/or the plot of your story rather than from the monsters.
To use an example from another article I wrote, a good zombie story isn't scary because of the zombies. It's scary because of the breakdown in society that the zombie apocalypse causes. It's scary because, even if the main characters survive, then they will never be able to lead normal lives again. It's scary because the suvivors could, at any time, become infected by the zombie virus.
A good zombie story is scary because the suvivors might recognise some of the people who have been turned into zombies. It's scary because it reminds us that, eventually, death comes for us all. It's scary because of the other survivors who have used the zombie apocalypse as an excuse to be as evil as they want to be etc…
There are lots of disturbing and scary things in a good zombie story, but the zombies aren't one of them.
Going back to my earlier point about symbolism, a good monster is usually only scary because it symbolises something else which is genuinely scary. A ghost symbolises death, misery and vengeance. A werewolf symbolises a body which it's owner cannot control, it symbolises the fact that – for all our progress- humans are still essentially animals.
To use an example from sci-fi, the borg in "Star Trek" aren't creepy because they look like Hellraiser-esque cyborgs. They're scary because they symbolise absolute conformity and a total loss of individuality.
So, if you're adding a monster to your story, then be clear about what it symbolises and see if you can find subtle ways to make that symbolism obvious to your readers (eg: via how your characters, and the monsters, react to things).
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2 comments on "How To Write A Genuinely Scary Monster Story"
karmicangel says:
I've never written a monster story, but I've read some really really scary ones, and I find the scariest are the 'unknown' or unexplained ones. Not the ones you see in the full light of day. But maybe that's just me.
pekoeblaze says:
I've written horror stories before, but I haven't written one featuring a monster of any kind for ages. I don't know, I seem to be much more of an artist than a writer these days.
Although, yeah, I've read quite a few monster stories too. I'm not quite sure what the scariest one was (since psychological/supernatural horror stories tend to scare me a lot more than monster stories do), but if you want to read an innovative/interesting/imaginative monster story – then it might be worth checking out "Cabal" By Clive Barker.
But,yeah, monsters are a lot scarier if they're mostly left to the imagination.


The cruel consequences of the UK's obsession with dogs on social media have been exposed, as thousands of puppies now face huge risks of being dumped by owners.
The rise of puppies on social networks has led to a huge outcry for 'designer dogs' in the last few years, as videos and pictures of adorable pups win the hearts of the public.
Animal welfare charity the RSPCA linked the latest Instagram dog trends to a surge in demand for fashionable cross-breeds, which are making them a popular first choice amongst users.
Rachel Oates, owner of Instagram-famous Winny the Corgi witnessed this first-hand, when the success of her dog's account was connect to soaring Pembroke Welsh Corgis sales.
But as these new fads raise the demand for certain breeds, dog rescue organisations are seeing a massive increase in the number of trendy pups being abandoned by owners.
The RSPCA reported a shocking 11-fold rise in bichon frise-cross rescues since 2012, and saw the amount of unwanted pug-crosses more than double between just 2014 and 2015.
And last year, it rescued a number of pugs and French bulldogs that had been left for dead by their previous owners.
Campaigners now believe the growing rates of unwanted designer dogs is linked to more owners impulse buying after becoming smitten with pups appearing on their news feed.
A new report by leading veterinary charity PDSA, found that over five million pet owners are doing no research before choosing a new pet.
Now thousands of innocent pups are being given up after owners realise they are unable to give the dog the lifelong care and attention it needs.
Despite her dog's social media success, Rachel now also warns of the dangers posed by new puppy crazes.
'Of course you would never want a breed to get popular because there is always a risk of puppy farming.
'Or people buying puppies without doing the proper research into the breed, just because they are cute on Instagram.
'For example I've had to warn people Corgis are known to be heavy shedders. If you're getting a Corgi you might want to buy a Dyson as well,' she said.
Many of these breeds now facing huge risks of abandonment were first made fashionable by celebrities, whose love for trendy breeds caused the designer dog craze.
Yet despite warnings from experts about how celebrity dogs are contributing to record numbers of abandoned 'handbag dogs', stars are still flaunting their fashionable puppies to their followers.
With YouTube stars like British beauty vlogger, Zoella and PewDiePie using tiny dogs alongside them in their videos, there are fears they could now be influencing more spontaneous puppy buys.
And as the puppy grows and the excitement of having a new dog wears off, many of these impulse dogs being bought are handed over to rescue centres.
There are also growing concerns that the success of Internet-famous dogs is making more people buy puppies just to boost likes on their own profiles.
A survey by Sony Mobile revealed that almost one quarter of pet owners have made a social media account exclusively for their pet.
It also found that an astonishing 79% of people had made their pet a Facebook page, with 38% admitting to creating an Instagram account.
This new trend is something psychologists say will become more common as people use their pets to compete with others online and improve how they feel about themselves.
'Some people perhaps aren't happy with their personality or their achievements in life, and they almost live through their pets or their belongings,' says Dr. Jacqui Taylor, an associate professor in cyber-psychology.
'In a way they are trying to stimulate that 'awww' feeling in the audience, because people might not have said 'awww' to a picture of them, but they will to a picture of their pet.
As these latest trends put huge pressure on registered breeders to supply 'must-have' breeds, there has been a massive increase in owners turning to unclassified sites in search of the perfect puppy.
And with videos of healthy, happy puppies on social media attracting thousands of comments from wannabe owners, sites like Facebook have become havens for illegal breeders to flog their litters.
Some breeders are getting in on the social media puppy trends by using hashtags like '#puppiesforsale' on Instagram to entice users into buying a puppy.
Now more than a third of UK pet owners say they would consider buying a pet from an advert on social media.
Yet in many cases the puppies sold on unregistered sites are extremely vulnerable to fatal diseases caused by genetic disorders and poor breeding conditions.
And now a shocking one in five pups bought online and on social media are dying before they reach six months old.
The biggest problem with any advert offering an animal for sale is that the decision to purchase a pet is an emotionally charged one.
Experts now say that puppies purchased through adverts on social media often come from mills or have been trafficked, putting them at risk of developing diseases like parvo virus and giardia.
These dogs are also often highly unsocialised, which can make them aggressive towards their owners and other animals.
Now thousands of owners are having to have their beloved new pups put to sleep after just a few days, while others have to give up their dogs after failing to cope with hostile behaviour.
Online puppy sellers tend to ignore these potential problems in their adverts, which leads to many new owners being duped into buying sick puppies.
Charlotte Parsons, a spokesperson for Dogs Trust warned that many unlicensed breeders are using adverts on social media to targeting people's emotions and sell their puppies.
'The biggest problem with any advert offering an animal for sale is that the decision to purchase a pet is an emotionally charged one.
And as these problems become more common, organisations are contacting sites to warn them of dangers of sellers operating on their network.
'The Pet Advertising Advisory Group has approached many other classified advertising websites and social media providers to encourage them to consider the welfare of the animals being advertised for sale on their site.
This was the case for Hollie Wheeler, 23, who paid £900 for what she thought was a pure-bred pug, only to be conned by someone falsely advertising pedigree puppies online.
'We found local pug litters online and Mum agreed to go and look. When she called to enquire the owners sold Mum a story about the mother dying when the pups were three weeks through fitting.
'This pulled on mum's heart strings and we swallowed the story and took Hattie home,' says Hollie.
But after a few months, she learned that Hattie was not a pedigree pug like the breeder claimed and was in fact a Jack russell-cross.
'We first noticed when she was around six to eight months. We took her to a pug walk, and other pug owners asked what she was crossed with.
I think a lot of people have been influenced. If you look at dog trends, it's gone from pug to dachshund that now everyone wants.
After being cheated, Hollie is now warning others about the impact the demand for fashionable breeds glamorised on social media is having on the welfare of puppies.
'I think a lot of people have been influenced. If you look at dog trends, it's gone from pug to dachshund that now everyone wants.
Unfortunately, stories like Hollie's have become all too familiar and unlike Hattie, many dogs do not find such loving owners.
But as the younger generations favour 'mail order pups' and buy desirable breeds from unscrupulous sellers, The Kennel Club has warned that these problems will grow.
And with the nation's love for dogs online showing no signs of fading, thousands more innocent puppies will soon become victims of the latest puppy trends dominating social media.


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No Des Moines record set for Thanksgiving holiday travel
Despite high expectations, Thanksgiving travel at Des Moines International Airport for the third year in a row fell short of the prepandemic level, the airport confirmed Monday.
Airport figures show that during the six-day holiday travel period, 23,511 travelers passed through the airport, about 4% short of the 24,478 during the same period in 2019, the last Thanksgiving before the COVID-19 pandemic reached Iowa in 2019.
That was despite October being the first month in which the number of people using the airport exceeded the figure for the same month in 2019.
Before the pandemic, the airport had been setting
Taylor Swift public ticket sale canceled over extreme demand, Ticketmaster says
Taylor Swift poses with her awards during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022 held at PSD Bank Dome on November 13, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany.
Kevin Mazur | Wireimage | Getty Images
Tickets for Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour will no longer be put on sale to the general public Friday, after Live Nation's
Ticketmaster said there weren't enough tickets to meet meet demand.
"Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled," Ticketmaster said in a tweet.
Coastal to Travel to Troy for 2022 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Championship Game
CCU Photography
Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 3
2022 Sun Belt Championship Game
TROY, Ala. – The 2022 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Football Championship Game will be held in Troy, Ala., on Saturday, Dec. 3, as the East Division Champions in Coastal Carolina (9-2, 6-2 Sun Belt) will take on the West Division Champions in Troy (10-2, 7-1
Virginia football team to attend 3rd funeral in 5 days
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia's football team will travel to its third funeral in five days Wednesday to honor the life of Lavel Davis Jr., who was fatally shot on a bus along with two teammates after they returned to campus from a field trip.
Davis, 20, and teammates D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were killed Nov. 13 after returning from the trip to see a play in Washington, D.C.
Teammate Mike Hollins and a fifth student, Marlee Morgan, were also shot, but survived.
Authorities have said Christopher Darnell Jones
U.S. Mission China Statement to American Citizens
The United States has no higher priority than the safety, health, and well-being of American citizens overseas. We are actively working with and assisting our citizens experiencing challenges related to the recent rise of COVID-19 infections in China. The People's Republic of China (PRC) authorities have expanded COVID-19 prevention restrictions and control measures as outbreaks occur. These measures may include residential quarantines, mass testing, closures, transportation disruptions, lockdowns, and possible family separation. Ambassador Burns and other Mission officials have regularly raised our concerns on many of these issues directly with senior PRC officials and will continue to do so.
Travel warnings: What other nations tell their citizens about US violence
(CNN) — American travelers — at least those of the cautious variety — might be familiar with the US State Department's travel advisories.
The agency monitors the world for potential trouble and issues warnings from "Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions" to "Level 4: Do Not Travel," alerting would-be visitors to terrorism threats, war, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, high crime rates and other personal security issues.
But have you ever wondered how other countries' governments caution their citizens about coming to the United States? What kind of reputation does America have?
CNN Travel checked out what the governments of the
AG's Office did not keep Schmitt's travel records after 2020
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt greets a crowd of supporters in St. Louis after winning the GOP primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022
Emily Curiel
In April, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt walked from inside the U.S. Supreme Court to a circle of cameras and reporters stationed on the sidewalk. Tourists listened in as Schmitt took questions about his and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's challenge to a Biden administration immigration policy.
"I view Missouri as a proxy for all the other states that are impacted by the crisis we have at the border," Schmitt


How can you use art to enhance learning for your students? What technology resources might you use to integrate art into teaching and learning practices?
How can rubrics be created and used to address the different intelligences? We usually think of a rubric as a document...can we create other forms of rubrics to help other kinds of learners?
Why use rubrics? I believe that if we begin to think of rubrics as roadmaps for learning, we'll use them more effectively. Think about it: when you have a game plan...a plan of action...you usually get your work done more quickly and efficiently.
How can you apply this to student work and assignments?


On Friday 15th March, 2019, an armed man opened fire on two of New Zealand's Islamic mosques.
Up to fifty people have been confirmed dead and a further forty-eight people are still being treated for injuries sustained in the shooting.
It is the country's worst every mass shooting.
The grief felt by such an event is wide spread. It isn't contained to the victims or their families. It isn't contained to their local community. It isn't even contained to the country in which it took place. The grief is felt worldwide. We grieve for those who have lost their lives. We grieve for those who are still battling their injuries. We grieve for the witnesses, whose lives will never be the same. We grieve for the victim's' families and friends. We grieve for those who belonged to the community who was targeted. We grieve for humanity.
How do we, as Catholics, understand this grief and process it so that we can move on, stronger than ever in our faith?
Grieving is a process of healing and recovery which is deeply personal and unique to each person experiencing loss.
For every person, the experience will be different.
Human life is a gift from God. It has been created out of God's love and generosity. When a life is lost, those left behind can be changed by that loss for ever. Grief is our response to loss. It can take many forms. Most commonly, a grieving person will cry and feel sad. But grief can also be expressed through anger, irritability, guilt, anxiety, helplessness, hopelessness, confusion, disorientation, despondency or depression.
As Catholics, we believe that death is not the end for us. We profess a firm and constant belief in an afterlife. Although we do not know what this life after death will be like, we do know what this life will be. If we choose the path of righteousness in our lives, we will arrive in heaven in our afterlife. Heaven is timeless. It is our final destination.
So death ends our human life. Each individual will be judged immediately after death, according to their faith and moral choices. A person who has made good moral choices, will receive their reward in heaven.
You may wonder exactly what heaven is?
Heaven is life in union with God in heaven. It is being with God. Heaven is for those who love God. In heaven, all of our fears and worries are gone. Heaven is where we want to be.
God gave us the most amazing gift. He gave us the gift of life. But he also gave us the freedom to choose what do with our lives. To reach heaven, we must choose life and choose love.
So for all of those who lost their lives, may they be receiving their eternal rewards in heaven. And for those of us who are still here on earth, experiencing profound grief and loss, may we find comfort in the knowledge that death is not the end for us. There is something far greater awaiting us all.


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Journals by Journal Name
Statistical Sources
Government and Organization Websites
Welcome to the Bluford Libguide for political science. This guide gathers starting places and information for searching library resources on political and governmental topics.
Visit the "Books" tab for information on finding books in the Bluford library and to browse some titles for ideas.
Visit the "Search for Articles by Topic" to access databases where you can enter key words and pull up articles from newspapers, scholarly journals, and related article sources.
Visit the "Journals by Journal Name" to find out how to find a journal (or other periodical publication like news or a magazine) when you know the name of the journal you want. This is a good place to start if a professor or colleague gives you a list of article citations to choose from.
Visit the "Statistical Sources" tab if you want to explore data and statistics on the government and society.
Visit the "Government and Organizational Web Sites" for web information from the U. S. Government as well as links to political science professional and scholarly societies.
What Do YOU Think
North Carolina's law banning many people with felony records from voting after they get out of prison is unconstitutional, a state court ruled Monday.
Felon voting ban is racially motivated and unconstitutional, NC judges rule
Domestic Terrorism and the Attack on the U.S.Capitol
The federal definition of domestic terrorism describes domestic terrorists as Americans who commit ideologically driven crimes in the United States but lack foreign direction or influence.
My Vote Don't Count
Yellopain. (2020). My Vote Don't Count (Video). Retrieved from Youtube Feb. 25, 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMALeR1i-FM.
This song and its accompanying video speak to the importance of understanding the U.S. political system and offers an explanation to people who think that their votes do not matter. The artist breaks down how the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government work.
States May Curb 'Faithless Electors,' Supreme Court Rules [With graphic(s)]
States can require members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for the presidential candidates they had pledged to support, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled, curbing the independence of electors and limiting one potential source of uncertainty in the 2020 presidential election.
Supreme Court restricts 'faithless electors'
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to free "faithless electors" in the complex Electoral College system that decides the outcome of presidential elections from state laws that force them to support the candidate who wins the state's popular vote.
Trump's Covid Failures Reshape Race and Lift Biden
President Trump's cancellation of the convention in Florida and sudden embrace of masks may signal his acceptance of a political landscape transformed by the pandemic.
The U.S. Capitol Police: Brief Background
The U.S. Capitol Police is a department within the legislative branch with security, protection, and administrative responsibilities.
What Do Portland Protesters Want, and How Have the Police Responded? [With graphic(s)]
When a video showing George Floyd's death in police custody spread across social media, cities and towns nationwide soon erupted in protests against systemic racism and police brutality. But while protests in many places subsided after a few weeks, Portland, Oregon, has been holding demonstrations every night since May 29.
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I'm so fierce that it's so nuts, I live to be model thin.
Saturday was my second time at London Fashion Week - the first was last year, with Mariana, to take some pictures for the Sketchbook blog. Which was lovely, but this year I was going as 'me' - which was a totally different experience. I got my own pass! WITH MY NAME ON IT AND EVERYTHING.
Yep, the little things excite me. I really didn't know how it all worked this year, so I applied for tickets REALLY late, but the lovely people at Jasper Conran sent me an invite to their show anyway, because they're nice like that. It was standing, but I managed to get a seat in the end. I brought the wrong lens, so my photos are TERRIBLE. Here are some.
The show was good, but if I'm honest, not really my thing. The designs were beautifully structured, appearing simple with neat little details you wouldn't expect like cool back straps and hip-high splits. But I couldn't shake the feeling that if you weren't a size 6 and 5'10, you wouldn't be able to pull them off. However, I did see Kirstie Allsopp on the front row! And Curtis from Misfits! And these other two attractive ladies who are probably very famous - and if not, thoroughly gorgeous (any clues?).
The best part, though, was hanging out with bloggers. I popped into London after work for a lovely Friday dinner with some awesome bloggers. It was awesome to FINALLY meet Michelle - we've been talking to each other pretty much since we started blogging! Plus, Hayley, Carrie, Jazmine, Kristabel, Jen, Winnie, Lily, Gem and Vicki were there too - and the evening ended with most of us in Jen & Vicki's hotel room, ten of us piled upon the double bed, gossiping away (and my girl Amy came along, too!). But when I came back in on Saturday, it was a little scary going along without any set plans, and only one definite invite! I quickly met up with Jazmine, Vicki, Kristabel, Reena, Susie and Dina and so didn't feel lonely at all.
I couldn't get over how exhausting just one day of LFW was - and I only went to one show! But it was a great experience, and I hope I can come back next year.
BUT. I wasn't impressed with the way bloggers were treated - we had our own tiny area (about four seats!), away from the rest of the press (I made it into one press area, and it was really just an indoor seating area - it's not like there were some amazing facilities they were saving for the big shots!) and we weren't allowed the tote bags. I know it's not all about the freebies, but I was looking forward to having my own 'Look where I went!' memento, so was a bit gutted about that, but bloggers were strictly not allowed them (which was especially irritating when you a) saw the giant piles behind the check-in desk; b) see how many went up on eBay after the weekend - 'real' press abuse freebies too; c) know how much tote bags cost to produce, especially in bulk (clue: not a lot). It just seemed rather elitist, if I'm honest, and unnecessary.
I just think that if the LFW organisers have a problem with bloggers coming along, they should be more selective about who they accept - I'm far from a 'big name blogger' and my blog is more high street than high fashion - but it seemed like anyone who pre-registered correctly for a press pass got one. And if the designers - the lifeblood of LFW - don't have a problem sending tickets out to bloggers, then it doesn't really seem like it's the place of LFW to decide who is and who isn't allowed 'special treatment', you know? Bloggers didn't even get lists of exhibitors. And the staff working were often downright rude. I would like to see more shows, but yeah, it does make me think twice about going back.
PS - Sorry for the radio silence this week - time has just vanished! I'll be back tomorrow with my LFW dress.
PPS - I'm SO excited - the diet & fitness blog I write for, Where Are My Knees has been shortlisted for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award! Ahhhh! Vote for us, would you?
I'm really gutted to hear how all you lovely girls were treated, like you said, if they have that big an issue with bloggers attending then they should make use of their application system properly. PAH.
Glad you had a nice time. Sorry to hear about the way you were treated. Were there meant to be freebies in the tote bags?? I got one and all it had in it was a schedule and exhibition list. Never mind.
Your photos are great, but it's such a shame the way that bloggers have been treated has marred the whole thing.
I don't really fancy next fashion week simply because it will be February and if I'm not allowed inside I will definitely die from the cold!
See them running around, changing the rain.
Cold wind blowing in the middle of the night.
It's not right, but it's okay.
You're the queen of the superficial.
It's your eyes that make me smile.
You could be my unintended.
London calling to the faraway towns.